Time Library
Additional date-time classes that complement the standard library.

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Installation

Use the package manage NPM to install the package:

npm install @croct/time

Time zones

Offsets for region-based zones come from Intl. Daylight savings gaps and overlaps are fully supported, but Intl only reports the offset in effect at a point in time, which leads to three limits:

• Standard time and daylight savings time cannot be told apart, since both look the same through Intl.
• There is no list of transitions to read, so getNextTransition and getPreviousTransition search about five years from the given instant and return null past that. Checking whether a local date-time falls in a gap or an overlap does not need the list, and has no such limit.
• Offsets before 1970 depend on the Intl data of the runtime, and some environments drop the early history of some zones.
• The data is only reachable for the points in time a native date object can represent, roughly 273,790 years around 1970, so region-based zones reject the instants and local date-times beyond that range rather than guess an offset. The bound for a local date-time is a few days tighter, as resolving one reads the offsets around it.

Contributing

Contributions to the package are always welcome!

• Report any bugs or issues on the issue tracker.
• For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.
• Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

Testing

Before running the test suites, the development dependencies must be installed:

npm install

Then, to run all tests:

npm run test

Run the following command to check the code against the style guide:

npm run lint

Building

Before building the project, the dependencies must be installed:

npm run build

Local development

To use a local development version on other projects, you must link the built artifacts with npm:

npm run build
cd build
ln -s ../package.json package.json || true
npm link

Then on any other project that uses the library:

npm link @croct/time

License

Copyright © 2015-2021 Croct Limited, All Rights Reserved.

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